The Art of Logical Thinking: Or the Laws of Reasoning (Classic Reprint)

"The word reason itself is far from being precise in its meaning. In common and popular discourse it denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends."

employment of the reasoning faculties of the mind we compare objects

the fact is equally true that the majority of persons reason

we are not assuming that you never have reasoned—on the contrary we are fully aware that you in connection with every other person, have reasoned all your mature life.

we are fully aware that you in connection with every other person, have reasoned all your mature life. That is not the question.

act, process or art of exercising the faculty of reason; the act or faculty of employing reason in argument; argumentation, ratiocination; reasoning power; disputation, discussion, argumentation."

An Affirmative Proposition is one in which the Predicate is affirmed to agree with the Subject. A Negative Proposition is one in which the agreement of the Predicate and Subject is denied.

In Logic, a Proposition is: "A sentence, or part of a sentence, affirming or denying a connection between the terms; limited to express assertions rather than extended to questions and commands." Hyslop defines a Proposition as: "any affirmation or denial of an agreement between two conceptions."

there is the element of the mental process on the one hand and the verbal expression of it on the other hand. It will be well to keep this fact in mind.

When a Judgment is expressed in words it is called a Proposition